BOOK REPORT Title & author of the book: 'Anita and Me' by Meera Syal The setting of the book? The story resolves around Meena Syal, the daughter of the only Punjabi family in the Midlands' mining village of Tollington. The novel provides a vision of British childhood in the 1960s, a childhood caught between two cultures, each on the brink of enormous change. Meena is desperate to fit in with the other children in her neighbourhood while forever feeling like an outsider because she is "different". Eventhough the Punjabi family is well respected by the locals, there are still sutations when they have to deal with racism. Plot summary (NB! Use the present tenses) Anita and Me by Meera Syal is the story of a young Punjabi girl growing up in the fictional English village of Tollington in the Midlands in the 1960s. The book follows Meena during her pre-teen years as she is desperate to fit in ...
English literature is one of the oldest literatures in Europe; dates back to the 6th century AD. Oral literature, i.e. not written down, spread from person to person. In 449 AD Anglo-‐Saxon tribes invaded England – beginning of the Anglo-‐Saxon period in English literature. The first form of literature was folklore, carried by scops and gleemen, who sang in alliterative verse (a kind of simple poetry). Prose developed much later. The first form of recorded English literature was the epic Beowulf, which was produced sometime near the end of the 7th and beginning of the 8th century. It has no ...
TALLINNA ÜLIKOOL HUMANITAARTEADUSTE DISSERTATSIOONID TIIT LAUK Džäss Eestis 1918–1945 DOKTORIVÄITEKIRI Kaitsmine toimub 20. novembril 2008. aastal kell 10.00 Tallinna Ülikooli Kunstide Instituudi saalis, Lai 13, Tallinn, Eesti. Tallinn 2008 2 TALLINNA ÜLIKOOL HUMANITAARTEADUSTE DISSERTATSIOONID TIIT LAUK Džäss Eestis 1918–1945 Muusika osakond, Kunstide Instituut, Tallinna Ülikool, Tallinn, Eesti. Doktoriväitekiri on lubatud kaitsmisele filosoofiadoktori kraadi taotlemiseks kultuuriajaloo alal 13. oktoobril 2008. aastal Tallinna Ülikooli humanitaarteaduste doktorinõukogu poolt. Juhendajad: Ea Jansen, PhD Maris Kirme, kunstiteaduste kandidaat, TLÜ Kunstide Instituudi muusika osakonna dotsent Oponendid: Olavi Kasemaa, ajalookandidaat, EMTA pu...